penchant

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
2. (uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
3. (countable, uncountable) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Synonyms

inclination

tendency

preference

predilection

bias

leaning

taste

affection

proclivity

propensity

choice

conjugation

devotion

fancy

flair

flexion

genius

gradient

hobbies

inflection

inflexion

interest

liking

list

lurch

orientation

partiality

pitch

predisposition

prepossession

proneness

relish

slant

slope

sympathies

sympathy

tilt

tipping

warmheartedness

whim

druthers

philia

love

❤️

acclivity

preconceived opinion

affectionateness

affinity

aptness

avocation

bend

Translations

penchant

inclinazione

Vorliebe

inclinación

Hang

neiging

propensione

predileção

meyil

Neigung

tendenza

simpatia

προτίμηση

apprezzamento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɒnʃɒn/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).